Though I say “yes I see”, no I really don't see (is my smiley face still on?): beer (brewing and drinking), camping, eating, hugging trees, kiting, fishing, ironing, hiking, geocaching and munzing, painting (oils, emulsion and gloss), ranting, recording history as I see it. Days with family, days with friends, days with granddogs. Always an opinion (always wrong), and rarely a dull moment. Welcome to my world... remember - history is written by those who make the effort to write it.

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5 February 2017 (Sunday) - Hackington

Another good night’s sleep. I like
those. I came downstairs to find my dog asleep in his basket. I did my morning
things and had a spot of brekkie, and then perused the geo-map

A week ago I put out a new geocache near
work. After a couple of days the geo-feds gave it the thumbs-down so I moved
it. Last night I got a message that the place to which I’ve moved it is equally
unacceptable as it is too close to another nearby puzzle cache. I spent a
little while puzzling, and after getting a little hint I soon solved the
puzzle. Sure enough my hide isn’t within the rules. Looking at the map it
doesn’t look like there is anywhere near my new place of work that would be
suitable for a new cache. Oh well..

I then spent a little while weeding out
my Facebook friends list. I had 478 people on the list. Many are friends with
whom I desperately want to keep in touch. Some are ex-colleagues, some are
people I’ve met here and there, and some are family and friends I rarely see
but with whom I want to keep in touch.

But on that list are also there are
people who I added because they once (many
years ago) came to the astro club, and people I met at kite festivals ten
years ago, and people who added me back in a previous life when said people
wanted to suck up to the boss. There are so many people about whom I get notifications
about whom I find myself asking “who on
Earth is that?” So I had a little weeding-out. The list is still rather
long, but it is better than it once was.

I was a little dismayed to see that
today was the Ashford 10K road race. Not content with making it crystal clear
that we are not welcome in our own park once a week, the jogging community
today effectively closed the town down. Fortunately we’d planned to be away
before the road closures came into effect, and by mid-morning we’d met up with
our geo-buddies and were wandering the lanes and footpaths found Hackington.

We had a rather good walk; a week ago
the mud was frozen. Today it had thawed out and was rather squelchy. As we
walked I saw a few rabbits, and the pheasant-shooting community were out in force
from what we heard. It was only a shame that the day noticeably got colder as
it wore on.

Geocache-wise it was a good walk; the
paths were clearly marked, and the stretches on roads were either on incredibly
quiet roads, or roads with good pavements. The hides were good even if one did
fox us. Personally I felt they were rather spaced out; there were twenty two
along a route which could probably have had thirty, but that’s just me.

I took a few photos as we walked; and with
the route walked we retired to the Golden Lion in Broad Oak for a pint (or two). Once home we hosed the mud off
of two rather grubby dogs who then both went to sleep.